In a move that could reshape regional geopolitics, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement for a Joint Feasibility Study on the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (UAP) ...

The implications of this move extend far beyond symbolism. By recognizing the Taliban as Afghanistan’s legitimate government, Russia has shifted from informal dealings to formal state-to-state ...

Efforts by Central Asian states to engage with Afghanistan are getting a boost from the United Nations. A recently adopted UN ...

Russia has become the first country to formally recognize the Taliban's government in Afghanistan since it seized power in 2021, after Moscow removed the group from its list of outlawed organizations.

Central Asia’s worsening water crisis risks regional instability, but also creates a rare opening for the US to engage diplomatically, support infrastructure, and counter rival powers through ...

So a symbiotic relationship between Russia and Central Asia looks likely to endure. Lenin may no longer loom large over Kyrgyzstan, but Russia will loom large over Central Asia for quite a while yet.

Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to recognise the Taliban government of the country.

In a remote town in southern Kyrgyzstan, teacher Nur Akhmatov watched workers building a library, conference hall and women's sports centre -- construction mostly funded by Kyrgyz emigrants ...